Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Russia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing James White and The Blacks to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Supertramp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dave Clark Five,
Main Source,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dead Boys,
Nils Olav,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
John Foxx,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bush Tetras,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Audionom,
The Sound,
Guru Guru,
Public Enemy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Slick Rick,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pussy Galore,
Pole,
Adolescents,
Warren Ellis,
UT,
Jeff Mills,
The Offenders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Siglo XX,
Little Man,
Harmonia,
The Flesh Eaters,
Juan Atkins,
Donald Byrd,
Marvin Gaye,
Jimmy McGriff,
Agent Orange,
Yaz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Slackers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gichy Dan,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eurythmics,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Josef K,
Scientists,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul II Soul,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker,
Grey Daturas,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.